And now, the end is near ... as the last BBC staff prepare to leave Television Centre later this month, the corporation has published pictures taken by photographer Manuel Vazquez to record the once bustling but now empty spaces left behind, on the in-house news website Ariel. The elegiac results include an abandoned scenery workshop ("the floor was full of photographs and paint and references"), the entrance to studio TC5 ("stopped in time"), BBC3 "blobs" in a corner on top of a pile of furniture, and an Alfred Hitchcock cutout standing in the old Radio 5 Live offices. "There were so many areas that people don't normally visit," said Vazquez. "The building had been shrinking and shrinking."